J.F.Lazenby for Stanford Interesting attempt to overview the entire War which I felt failed. Although Lazenby's ideas will form an excellent record of the ancient accounts and address the more vexing evidential problems this was all exoskeleton and no tissue. The position at each stage is not made clear, and the alternatives not explored, its a book about books, not a book about a military-political problem. The true weakness of text-based history is made manifest as the lack of analysis of operational opportunity leaves an unbridegable gap. However, if Lazenby is not a Duffy or a Hale he remains immensely erudite and this is a book to which one will return. More Book Corner: Hot Blood & Cold Steel The Rules of the Game Philip II Importing the European Army War and Society in early Modern Europe 1495-1715 First Punic War Warfare in the Latin East 1192-1291 Spanish Naval Power 1589 to 1665 The Anatomy of Glory The First Crusade and the Idea of Crusading The Kaiser Time to Kill First World War The Military Revolution Debate Pallas Armata titles Back to Perfidious Albion #95 Table of Contents Back to Perfidious Albion List of Issues Back to MagWeb Master Magazine List © Copyright 1997 by Charles and Teresa Vasey. This article appears in MagWeb (Magazine Web) on the Internet World Wide Web. Other military history articles and gaming articles are available at http://www.magweb.com